The Gunpowder Shed at Poynton

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 8.
Standing hard and gritty in this soft Cheshire landscape of sheep pasture and trees is the little brick building that was used for storing gunpowder when this area was part of the Vernon Pits – part of Poynton’s 150 year history as a coal-mining settlement. (“In t’olden days this were all mines…”) Mining here ended in 1935 (so no, neither Margaret Thatcher nor Arthur Scargill can be blamed) following a period of decreasing yields and high drainage costs.